134 thoughts on “BP Protest at Belvidere and Grace Streets Noon Tomorrow”

  1. It doesn’t scientists long to figure out that this solar plant is scorching birds and killing wildlife at the Ivanpah Plant in California. The added bonus is that the government subsidized this electric plant despite Google being one of the owners. Also, electricity costs four times as much to produce here at the solar plant as compared to a natural gas plant. The Greens are saying, “Move along. Nothing to see here.”

    http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304703804579379230641329484

  3. Taking a break from the back-and-forth debate that has been going on for nearly four years now, we need to discuss administrative issues–namely the BP at Belvidere and Grace is now a Sunuco. Do you want to battle Sunoco? Or do you want to change the location of the BP protest? Discuss….

  4. I guess Sunuco is better than BP in some ways, but in the big scheme of things, they are still a huge fossil fuel producer that is doing damage to our atmosphere and planet.

    From Wikipeida:

    Suncor operates four wind farms. These provide 147 megawatts of power, providing an annual CO2 offset of 284,000 tonnes compared to coal-generated electricity.[citation needed][when?] Suncor’s ethanol facility in St. Clair, Ontario produces 200 million litres of ethanol per year.[citation needed] This ethanol is blended into retail gasoline products sold at Sunoco and some Petro-Canada service stations.
    According to a Pollution Watch fact sheet, in 2007 Suncor Energy’s oil sands operations had the sixth highest greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.[14][15] While Suncor has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of its oil sands operations by more than 50% since 1990, total greenhouse gas emissions from the company’s operations have increased because of growing oil sands production.
    On April 2, 2009, Suncor was fined $675,000 for failing to install pollution control equipment at its Firebag operation near Fort McMurray, Alberta in July 2006. On the same day, Suncor was fined $175,000[16] for dumping untreated wastewater from a company work camp near Fort McMurray into the Athabasca River in 2007.[17][18]
    In the United States, Suncor has also been fined by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. In April 2012, a fine of $2.2 million was assessed for air pollution. Suncor failed to monitor and control emissions a number of times throughout 2009 and 2010, and numerous emissions exceeded regulations.[19] Suncor was also cited for “failure to conduct equipment inspections, train employees, and fully develop standard procedures for operating equipment”.[20] Additionally, a benzene leak into Sand Creek was discovered in the fall of 2011. Employees at Suncor and the nearby Metro Wastewater Reclamation District Plant were exposed to benzene through the air and through drinking water. Cleanup efforts and the extent of the environmental consequences have remained largely undisclosed to the public and community around Sand Creek.[21][22]
    Suncor is working to reduce the amount of bitumen entering tailings ponds. Under the auspices of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Suncor has teamed with the University of Alberta and Matrikon, an Edmonton-based software company, to develop new separation-cell technology that could reduce the amount of bitumen entering tailings ponds by 50 per cent.[23]

  8. From SeekingAlpha.com:

    BP, Anadarko may face billions in fines after court ruling
    BP and Anadarko Petroleum (APC) could be facing billions of dollars in fines after the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans said today the companies are automatically liable under the U.S. Clean Water Act as co-owners of the Macondo well that blew out and started the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.The court upheld a lower-court decision that allows the U.S. to seek up to $18B in fines from BP if it is found grossly negligent for its actions surrounding the spill; APC faces a maximum of $4.6B.The Clean Water Act allows the government to seek fines of as much as $1,100/bbl spilled on a finding of strict liability and up to $4,300/bbl for gross negligence; the ruling leaves both companies immediately vulnerable to the $1,100/bbl fines.

  14. Again, the Obama administration needs to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. And the Sierra Club needs to endorse the Keystone XL pipeline.

  17. Well, the Democrats took another shellacking earlier this month during the midterm elections. Even with the estimated $74 million donated by environmentalist and billionaire Tom Steyer, the Democrats just couldn’t hang on. This is ironic because liberals typically hound others who take big donations from individuals and/or corporations. Yet, this proves that big donors can’t win elections for their favored politicians. So it’d be nice if Harry Reid and others of his party quit complaining about the Koch Brothers.
    Further, voters have had enough of unproven environmental electricity generation methods (solar) and the subsidies given for failed businesses (Solyndra). Fracking and other methods to extract oil and natural gas from the Bakken oil field and other places shows the results and benefits of entrepreneurship. Additionally, these ventures have been funded by private dollars, so no taxpayer is left with the bill when or if these businesses go belly up (like Solyndra). Individuals are already benefitting by paying for cheaper gas at the pump.
    Hopefully, sooner rather than later, Keystone XL will be given the green light to help further improve our economy. Oil from the Bakken area will take the pressure off the need to drill in the Gulf of Mexico. And that’ll make at least one environmentalist happy.

  23. Five years have passed since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and setting off the worst oil spill in U.S. history. In the aftermath of the crisis, BP pledged to make the Gulf Coast and the victims of the oil disaster whole. Five years later, this promise has yet to be fulfilled. In fact, BP’s early pledge has largely been cast aside, because the cost to keep that promise has exceeded how much BP is willing to spend. http://www.citizenvox.org/2015/04/20/bp-the-whole-story/

  25. Time to get Keystone XL built. And relax standards for coal powered power plants.

  28. As compared to the BP oil spill, I am only seeing a fraction of the anger from environmental groups and attention from the media for the mine spill in Colorado. Where are the calls for EPA chief Gina McCarthy to step down and be hauled off to jail? Why isn’t Obama breaking from his summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard to fly out to Colorado? It’s just time to defund the EPA. They are not being helpful. If this accident been on a private company’s watch, heads would be rolling, protest would be in full swing, and Obama would be taking a break from his 18 holes. This is quite the double standard for critics against coal, natural gas, and oil company’s.

  29. Denny, do you blame the bomb squad if they accidentally set off an explosion while working to defuse a bomb?

  32. Well, we can all breathe a little easier now with landmark deal reached earlier this month at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. All those carbon based fuels can be stamped out and we can watch the world’s economy decline as result.

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